Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects

Will Rogers was a famous vaudevillian, humorist, commentator, and actor who starred in 71 movies (the majority of them silent films) and had a syndicated newspaper column.

He was born in 1879 in Oklahoma Indian Territory, and was 1/4 Cherokee. He liked to joke that his ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat. He died in 1935 on a round-the-world trip when his small plane crashed near Barrow at the northern-most tip of Alaska.

I only know what I've read about him, but he seems like the best kind of comedian… the kind whose jokes are as wise as they are funny. Two of my favorite Will Rogers quotes, in addition to the one in the title of this post, are these two:

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

I wish I'd said that. Thanks, Will.